The Rehearsal is a 1974film produced by Jules Dassin that is a cinemagraphic indictment of the Greekjunta of 1967-1974. See also: 1973 in film 1974 1975 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Jules Dassin (born December 18, 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American film director. ... In modern usage, junta (pronounced as in Spanish HUN-ta or HOON-ta) typically refers to a military dictatorship, especially in Latin America, which is officially run by a committee of high-ranking military officers. ...
Orchestra Rehearsal continues the repression of individual identity and places nearly all its emphasis on the function of a group, the orchestra, which to a large extent stands for Society.
Indeed, the way the film describes the group seems a perfect dramatization of Georg Simmel's sociology: society (the orchestra) is a crystallization of the individual interactions (musicians and their instruments).
In a sense, his films, especially the one under consideration here, are Society rehearsals, readying individual members of the audience to conduct themselves and be conducted more wisely in a restricted if not repressive world.
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